Texts reading texts, sacred and secular

Summary: The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly unrelated tex.

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ISBN: 9781850759546
ISBN: 1850759545
ISBN: 9786613192141
ISBN: 6613192147
ISBN: 9781283192149
ISBN: 1283192144
ISBN: 0567024989
ISBN: 9780567024985
Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)
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Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1999.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Part I MARGINALIZATION; Chapter 2 HOGG''S READINGS OF THE BIBLE; Chapter 3 REVELATION READING THE HEBREW BIBLE; Part II DECONSTRUCTION; Chapter 4 READING THE CONFESSIONS DECONSTRUCTIVELY; Chapter 5 READING REVELATION DECONSTRUCTIVELY; Chapter 6 CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1: GENESIS RABBAH 19.9 AND 19.10; APPENDIX 2: 4Q385 SECOND EZEKIEL 2; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXES INDEX OF REFERENCES; INDEX OF AUTHORS; JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SUPPLEMENT SERIES.
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